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Language: en
Pages: 372
Pages: 372
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Pantheon
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Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation
Language: en
Pages: 236
Pages: 236
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-08-22 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries compos
Language: en
Pages: 408
Pages: 408
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher:
Bacchylides wrote masterful choral poetry of many types. Other fifth-century BC lyricists included: Myrtis, Telesilla of Argos, Timocreon of Rhodes, Charixena,
Language: en
Pages: 108
Pages: 108
Type: BOOK - Published: 1955 - Publisher: